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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1880
Page
4
The poem recalls a moldy shovel and pair of tongs kept by a grandmother. They stand sentry by an arm chair like grenadiers, their history linked to a 1792 era and family tales of weddings, meals, and soot filled days. The speaker mourns their mute witness as future generations inherit the home’s quiet losses.
On Winona Island in the Shatemuc River, fourteen year old Jack Hasbrouck and friends Nutting chestnuts ends in a dispute over fair share. After Joe Kiesler falls ill with fever Charley grants call for help. Jack sails through a storm to fetch medicine for Joe and braves a dangerous river crossing.
Jack Hasbrouck brave voyage across a stormy river to deliver life saving medicine for Joe Kiesler. Neighbors search while mother lights up the dock and Baxter the boatman rescues the exhausted boy just in time. Joe recovers as the two boys become close friends.
A collection of humorous quips and misquotes from papers like Albany Times Boston Transcript and Rome Sentinel. Includes lines on Nihilists milk trout moonlight and a New Jersey milkman who hanged himself in a cowshed with wry commentary from Punch and others.
A mix of kitchen recipes and home care advice: lemon custard, crullers from an 1788 New York manuscript, and guidance on plant care. Also a push to prepare farm tools, keep records, and begin a household accounting book for year-end clarity.
A Tadley meeting of farmers hears Mr Buckmaster argue that science and practice are inseparable in farming. He says practical work rests on underlying principles from astronomy to chemistry, and a farmer who masters theory alongside practice becomes educated and scientific. No skill can replace scientific knowledge.
Advice on selecting land and timing for sowing grasses, stressing local conditions over universal rules. Recommends heavy soils, well tilled fields, liberal manuring, surface manuring, and fall or spring sowing with mixtures suited to soil. Highlights water, shade, and rotation as factors to improve pasture quality.
A 19th century seed guide outlines pasture mixes by soil type. For general use, 45 pounds seed per acre includes perennial ryegrass eight, Italian ryegrass six, white clover five, orchard four, timothy three, meadow grass seven varieties two each, and yellow oatgrass one. Adjust by conditions such as damp bottoms, rocky hills, or gravelly soils, with mixes emphasizing timothy, red fescue, clover, and meadow grasses.
A translated account describes rat ravages in a French mill and a man’s failed methods to stop them. He notes repeated trapping and poisoning backfired as rats attacked sacks, gnawed at beams, and hid in warm, dark passages near a water course. He then vents a grim home remedy using chlorinated lime and oxalic acid to suffocate nest areas after openings were covered.
A Chambers' Journal piece warns arsenic spreads through green pigments in wall papers fabrics and clothing from hats to gloves and curtains. It notes poisoning from arsenical dyes in shirts paper collars and even food colorings and explains its volatility lets arsenic enter homes as a fine gas or dust.
A religious verse urges prompt action to fulfill God’s calls without delay. It emphasizes strength wisdom and timely duty, urging Christians to seize the opportunity to serve today rather than wait for a future moment.
A condensed schedule of Sunday school lessons for 1880 covering March through June. Topics include The False and the True, The Power of Christ, The Wheat and Taress, Confession and Seer, The Transation, Jesus and the Young, The Jujgment, Gethsemane, The Crucifixion, and periodic reviews and selections by the school.
G Holland reports widespread public interest in the English Bible revision, noting it will preserve the King James Bible’s language while correcting errors. The project aims to retain essential doctrines, with Christians awaiting the revised text eagerly across the Atlantic to Pacific.
A Detroit club gathering hears news of a fellow official’s serious illness. A member moves to the platform to express condolences, urging brief remarks and shared concern for the ailing brother as he comes up stairs.
The Boston text notes that girls refer familiarly to the common ground-worm as lumbicus terrestris. This simplifies a scientific name into everyday speech and reflects local usage.
An elderly physician once handed a mission group a recipe claiming a plant based cure for Consumption Bronchitis Catarrh Asthma and all lung ailments and nervous disorders He offers to mail free of charge the directions in German French or English to any reader who writes with a stamped return The notice lists W W Shenan 149 Powers Block Rochester NY as the sender
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